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Blue Yak Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$632k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$691kHealth$625kEnvironment$538kAnimals$347kHuman Services$338kRecreation & Sports$227kArts & Culture$220kYouth Development$207kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRIC$68,884
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$50,000
CHELSEA'S FUND$40,000
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM$35,000
LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$35,000
GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER$30,000
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE$30,000
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER$28,316
BUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE$25,000
YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
THE CHESHIRE HORSE AND HOUND FND$23,764
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORP$16,000
NEW ERA FOUNDATION$15,000
CHILDREN ON THE EDGE$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $689k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREE TO RUN INC: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $55k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $25k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $20k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $15k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $15k → 6%FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $13k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $86k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $55k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 6%KENNETT AREA YMCA: $50k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $40k → 6%KENNETT AREA YMCA: $40k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $30k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $30k → 6%KENNETT AREA YMCA: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
ID
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IL
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MA
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WY
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
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DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Blue Yak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Blue Yak Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 57 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
12

Total granted

$3.5M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+51%

Still filing today

74%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    LCH Health and Community Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $366k · revenue +43%
  • SW
    STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $276k · revenue +79%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • KENNETT LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • EI
    EFD INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LW
    LIVING WATER FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

9
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
10
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
11
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Primitive Hall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,106

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRIC — $355,971 · OtherKENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $108,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODBUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE — $105,635 · OtherBUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCEFOUNDATIONS FOR NATIONS INC — $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherPLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC — $60,000 · OtherBLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE — $78,500 · Other+43 more — $853,114 · Other+43 moreLCH Health and Community Services — $366,029 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Communit…YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $195,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYW…The Hamels Foundation Inc — $108,438 · Human ServicesThe Hamels Foundation I…KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $60,000 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY …THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $42,500 · Human Services+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $275,759 · Science & TechNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $188,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $65,000 · AnimalsPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $20,000 · AnimalsTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $155,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 · EducationLEARNING TO LEAD — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $9,000 · EducationCHELSEA'S FUND — $112,655 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado Foundation — $90,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $24,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $7,000 · Civil RightsBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $125,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art Association of Jackson Hole — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,771,220Human Services$796,967Science & Tech$275,759Animals$273,000Education$234,000Civil Rights$233,655Arts & Culture$220,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $366,029 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $275,759 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $188,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER — $155,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHELSEA'S FUND — $112,655 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetThe Hamels Foundation Inc — $108,438 over 5y, 38% of budgetBUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE — $105,635 over 6y, 38% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $90,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE — $78,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $49,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $42,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Association of Jackson Hole — $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT RUN CHARITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHealth in Harmony — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLOWDALE STEEPLECHASE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC — $17,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Leaders Council — $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPRING LAKE RANCH INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH NAVAJO HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINE TRUSTCHAIN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING TO LEAD — $10,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY — $9,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LCH Health and Community Services
  • Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER
  • Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
  • Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND
  • Who funds The Hamels Foundation Inc
  • Who funds BUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds New Era Colorado Foundation
  • Who funds BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds PLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC
  • Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
  • Who funds The Art Association of Jackson Hole
  • Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC
  • Who funds KENNETT RUN CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund
  • Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE
  • Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chester County Community FoundationPA23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Applestone Foundation-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Fjc · The Roemer Foundation · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Ccres

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Blue Yak Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company8% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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